Truth be told a 1999 article I found on the Internet archive showed the Saturn sold 4.1 million in US by the summer of 1998 due to the console being in the discount Ben at rock bottom price of between $49.99 and $29.99 just to get rid of them, mind you, Sega made no money this way 😢 In Pal region it sold 1.9 million South Korea 200K Australia 60K Japan 8.8 million by 2001 The wiki version of the story was a late 1997 figure of 9.13 million. It kept selling in Japan till mid 2001. Died in the rest of the world in 1998 In August 2001 it's grand total was 13.2 million units still horrible when you consider the Genesis sold between 39 million & 43 million

I just bought two sets Saturns japanese ones. I bought two original Street fighter Alpha 1/2 for it. Play it more than my PS5 or xbox

Sega Saturns greatest achievement a cameo on the drew Carey show

4 MB RAM and we were really enjoying it. Now 16 GB is a joke 😂

muchas gracias por este documental tan interesante

The saturn reminds me of the PS3 in a lot of ways

Great video. Playstation was essentially a toned down Namco 11 arcade board, sorta makes me wonder why Sega just didnt try and do the same thing with their Model 2 board for the Saturn.

MYTH BUSTED- You cannot fit your penis in the memory expansion slot

I like Ridge Racer more. Better playing game, better hardware, pioneering.

If only they hadn't rushed the release 😢 it could have been a much more even battle if they just waited until it looked more compelling with more games

I didn't buy it due to lack of marketing (I only save Sonic 3D Blast (meh) and some 2D Fighting game in a store a couple of times and the console gaming magazine I used to read didn't talk about it much), and the lack of IP continuation from the MD. If I was introduced to it via TR1 and RE1 for example I might've, but no one at school had it so I wouldn't have been able to trade games.

I just watched a video on the interviews with the developers of Bug! which was slated to be a launch title in America and got one of the first dev kits (the ones that were the size of a mini fridge, had no C compiler, and had to be debugged by affixing a cable directly onto the mother board) and one of the many eye opening details about the process was how late into development the Saturn's actual capabilities were "frozen", so whether or not the dual SH2 set up was always intended, it seems pretty clear that the final product was a somewhat slapdash affair and probably closer to the myth than the mythbusting here.

The daytona USA car (The Hornet) appeared as a DLC for Ridge Racer in the ps vita, included with a exclusive song made by the Daytona USA's composer, the song comes with the car, 4 gears and drifts like it was driven on ice.

The Saturn also has a special place for me because of two games I discovered in the summer of 1998: Shining Force III and Panzer Dragoon Saga. Both of those games completely changed what I thought was possible from a video game (I had never really played or heard of JRPGs before them) and changed my tastes forever.

I still think that what ultimately made them finally decide to quit the console business was the launch of the Xbox, because competing against NIntendo and Sony was already an uphill battle for them, but now you add Microsoft to the mix and the odds of Sega making even a dime making consoles drop to near zero. I would've quit too tbh just way too many major money players involved, the competition was crazy

Your real appreciation for old games is very refreshing, i loce your channel

Yans's produtions fez um vídeo sobre sega saturn baseado no seu material em português do Brasil, assim conheci esse canal , parabéns pelo conteúdo. Sucesso!

Thank you so much for putting this comparison together. This is exactly why I love KZfaq so much. This is such a niche topic and you covered it gracefully here. These two games were remarkable for the time.

the paradigm between consoles that generation was so weird, playstation was born in spite of the nintendo, but it turns out that playstation is rock and sega is scissors, and nintendo is spock lol

the saturns architecture makes a lot more sense when you consider the extra chips as being like the consoles GPU where were not a thing at the time.

Fun fact (I wish I could remember where I read this). The textures in HotD were not intended to be the final ones. Essentially, the developer showed the work in progress to their boss saying something along the lines of 'of course the textures are not finshed and many are place holder. To which they were told 'nonsense, just ship it'.

For me...the greatest difference was Ridge Racer use simple Japanese Roads, then Daytona uses "virtual racetracks"... Then if You wanna see something realistics Ridge Racer has more contents than Daytona. If You want, You can see in real roads something similar ti Ridge Racer, but nothing You Can see from Daytona!!! More of this happens 2years later with Granturismo, more realistic then other game ever made!!!

My heart bumps for Ridge Racer, Psx Edition...because when I was more then a child, Ridge Racer was there with me!!! Namco makes a grratest job, including a 3rd Person View, necessary to enjoy the game worldwide!!! Make something not present on the Arcade Version, It means that the First Game on Psx OVERPASS the Original Arcade Version, because on Psx you can change differenti ways to play the game!!! With only bumper camera the game Will be useless....to gain the Sense of Speed I wanna see my car!!! Incredibile Iconic Red KAMATA FIERA!!!!!

The corner in Ridge Racer that you said that you can get around with a small power slide has tiles around the outside. If you clip it just right, then you can take that corner at full speed. I've got Daytona on the PS3, but I prefer the Dreamcast version. It just feels better, you really feel pushed into your chair by the inertia of the car on the screen. I've never played another racer that does that.

great video love it

there is not a single all-time-great exclusive game on the saturn people would ever remember, while N64 and PS1 games are always in the top10 of best games all time lists created by many people or game magazines, what killed sega is the lack of games "to go for", microsoft is in the same situation right now with xbox

Perhaps the biggest way the difficulty with 3D hurt the Saturn is in its lack of groundbreaking event titles. You mentioned the lack of a mainline Sonic title, but basically every groundbreaking title that generation had to be 3D (as evidenced by Virtua Fighter in the early Japan era). While many of the 2D games of that generation are quite respected now, I think only SotN really made major waves during the generation at the time, and possibly some 2D fighters. It wasn’t that no one was playing 2D games, but rather those were the only ones that could usually capture the imagination of a lot of consumers. PS1 had plenty of those, and even N64 had Mario 64, Goldeneye, Ocarina, and a few others. I’m generalizing a fair bit, but I think there’s some truth to it.

I dunno why you keep showing Wipeout to show off good Saturn 3D graphics instead of like, Nights or like Burning Rangers or something.

Saturn is the best console of all time.

I played Daytona USA on the saturn and it was impressing to see 40 cars on track and the horse was me... Ridge Racer hooked me for the soundtrack it's a fantastic game too, both legends!

This vid deserves more views. Covers pretty much everything cool about CRTs

I could be wrong, but judging from the naked ear the Sega Saturn's sound chip just sounds so much better than the PSX. Am I crazy?

The most successful console failure ever

I’d love to get a modded one where I could just use sd cards

He says corner, not counter. Used to absolutely hammer Ridge Racer in the arcades while growing up. Daytona didn't even come close. 👍

We talk too much about North American (especially USA) and Japanese markets but never about Europe. Yes Sega managed to finally "beat" Nintendo in Japan with the Saturn, but they lose the European market when they were the leader with the Master System and Megadrive here. When Sega of America and Sega Japan were fighting, Sega Europe was living its own life peacefully, but I still remember reading about Sega Europe who had to correct some of Sega of America's bullshit that came to the UK/Europe. I'm pretty sure if Sega invested more in Europe they could have sold a little more consoles (especially if they translated their games, in the 90s less people were bilingual).

Go Sega Saturn ❤❤❤!!!! For me for arcade titles at home nothing beats the Saturn and NeoGeo absolutely nothing. Amazing video on the Saturn keep up the good work. 😊

I ordered copies of both of these games recently to play for the first time. (By chance, I wasn’t intending on comparing them) I’ve only played ridge racer so far and all I can say is Daytona USA has a lot to live up to

Great video. I'm not sure if there is a term for it but I feel like there is a lot memory "retcon" that occurs with the Saturn (and endless other things). By that I mean a narrative that develops after the fact that people start then pretending was the prevailing sentiment at the time. I feel like I had a very unique situation in that both my best friend and myself had launch year Saturns and then Playstations in rural U.S. We were the only two people in our school that we know of who had Saturns. In the real world from the perspective of two 12 year olds who had both consoles: 1. The Saturn's 3D performance blew us away. I think the most compelling game was actually Panzer Dragoon. It truly felt like something other worldly and the future of gaming and the Saturn did that first. 2. There was no feeling of notable graphical superiority from the PS1 in those early days. We had some cross platform titles like Tomb Raider and of course competing titles like Tekken and Virtual Fighter. Did we recognize and discuss differences in graphics? Of course, but it was more often that each console just did things differently and it rarely impacted our impression of playability. 3. The biggest failure of the Saturn to us 12 year olds in the U.S. was by far the limited library and release of games. The U.S. Saturn library still had a great list of top tier games once it was all said and done but it missed out on tons of those "pretty decent" games to fill in the gaps. After the initial batch of launch games it was more than TWO MONTHS before ANY other game came out. I don't mean a top tier game. I mean ANY game lol. You got Panzer Dragoon and Virtua Fighter (and Pebble Beach Golf Links lol, thanks dad) and then two and half months later you got Bug...and then a few more weeks and Myst. That's 3 months after launch and you only had two new games to pick from, neither of which were at the top of anyone's list lol.

Daytona usa saturn <<<<< ridge racer ps1 << daytona circuit edition <<< ridge racer revolution

Good job with this. The Saturn salutes you!

I’ve had the same argument for years when people always say that it wasn’t made for 3d games all these people seem to forget about Sega in the arcade and all those awesome 3-D games that they made in the arcade. They have plenty of experience in 3-D games and 3-D hardware. Also that Sony classic moment of “mic dropping” the price makes me cringe so much. Just like when they said the ps4 wouldn’t need to be always online. They were just following trends to optimize making money and capitalizing on mistakes made by sega and Xbox. It’s easy when you follow trends to make these decisions but when you are creating or leading an eco system it’s harder. Sony isn’t doing this stuff to be good to gamers they just are in it to make money like everyone else

I remember i was never a fan of 3d in the 90's. It just looked so ugly. But there were very few options for 2d games

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This feels like a modern take on the old style of Caddicarus videos where he looked at individual games. I love it

You're comparing a hydrogen bomb (Daytona) to a coughing baby lol

There was an extra chip added last minute, it wasn't a VDP, it was a 2nd SH-2 processor. Early dev kits /debuggers only supported 1 SH-2 processor which explains why so many early Saturn games didn't tap into the 2nd CPU,. because it was a late add-on to help with the 3-D, not that Saturn couldn't do 3-D. The biggest mistake was probably that part of the development which meant Saturn left the get with a distinct disadvantage when half its CPU available to it wasn't tapped by many games.

You need to watch this video which proves from the horses mouth what the Saturn was intended to be. On KZfaq "Sega FY 1997" kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nbeAea5-3ZiVg58.htmlsi=3blUQ3CW8Jqf_l0j

Love videos like this. The level of spin and mental acrobatics used to make an unmitigated disaster seem like a win is always fun to watch.

Great video. The PS3 version of Daytona in widescreen HD is still so good. Daytona is right behind Outrun 2 for me in rankings for arcade racers...